# List of German football transfers winter 2015–16

This is a list of German football transfers in the winter transfer window 2015–16 by club. Only transfers of the Bundesliga, and 2. Bundesliga are included.

## Bundesliga

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

### FC Bayern Munich

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | DF | GER | Serdar Tasci (on loan from Spartak Moscow) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 15 | DF | GER | Jan Kirchhoff (to Sunderland) |
| 16 | MF | GER | Gianluca Gaudino (on loan to FC St. Gallen) |
| 24 | FW | GER | Sinan Kurt (to Hertha BSC) |

### VfL Wolfsburg

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | FW | BRA | Bruno Henrique (from Goiás) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | DF | SUI | Timm Klose (to Norwich City) |
| 19 | FW | POL | Oskar Zawada (on loan to FC Twente) |
| 35 | MF | SUI | Francisco Rodríguez Araya (on loan to Arminia Bielefeld) |

### Borussia Mönchengladbach

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | DF | AUT | Martin Hinteregger (on loan from Red Bull Salzburg) |
| 23 | MF | GER | Jonas Hofmann (from Borussia Dortmund) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |

### Bayer 04 Leverkusen

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 27 | MF | AUS | Robbie Kruse (loan return from VfB Stuttgart) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 24 | MF | KOR | Ryu Seung-woo (on loan to Arminia Bielefeld) |
| 26 | DF | ITA | Giulio Donati (to Mainz 05) |

### FC Augsburg

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | DF | NED | Jeffrey Gouweleeuw (from AZ Alkmaar) |
| 17 | FW | ALB | Albian Ajeti (from FC Basel) |
| 27 | FW | ISL | Alfreð Finnbogason (on loan from Real Sociedad) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | FW | SVN | Tim Matavž (on loan to Genoa C.F.C.) |
| 33 | FW | GER | Sascha Mölders (on loan to TSV 1860 München) |
| 34 | FW | SRB | Nikola Đurđić (on loan to Fortuna Düsseldorf) |

### FC Schalke 04

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | MF | MAR | Younès Belhanda (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv) |
| 21 | MF | AUT | Alessandro Schöpf (from 1. FC Nürnberg) |
| — | FW | GER | Felix Schröter (loan return from 1. FC Heidenheim) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | DF | BRA | Felipe Santana (to Kuban Krasnodar) |
| 24 | DF | TUR | Kaan Ayhan (on loan to Eintracht Frankfurt) |
| 36 | FW | GER | Felix Platte (on loan to SV Darmstadt 98) |
| — | FW | GHA | Kevin-Prince Boateng (to AC Milan) |

### Borussia Dortmund

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 7 | MF | GER | Jonas Hofmann (to Borussia Mönchengladbach) |
| 9 | MF | BEL | Adnan Januzaj (loan return to Manchester United) |
| 35 | MF | GER | Pascal Stenzel (on loan to SC Freiburg) |

### 1899 Hoffenheim

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 27 | FW | CRO | Andrej Kramarić (on loan from Leicester City) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 28 | FW | HUN | Ádám Szalai (on loan to Hannover 96) |
| 21 | DF | GER | Nicolai Rapp (on loan to SpVgg Greuther Fürth) |
| — | MF | BRA | Guilherme Biteco (on loan to Ceará Sporting Club) |
| — | MF | BRA | Bruno Nazário (on loan to Cruzeiro Esporte Clube) |
| — | FW | SRB | Filip Malbašić (to FK Vojvodina) |

### Eintracht Frankfurt

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | GER | Yanni Regäsel (from Hertha BSC) |
| 3 | DF | TUR | Kaan Ayhan (on loan from Schalke 04) |
| 8 | MF | HUN | Szabolcs Huszti (from Changchun Yatai) |
| 10 | MF | MEX | Marco Fabián (from C.D. Guadalajara) |
| 32 | MF | TUN | Änis Ben-Hatira (from Hertha BSC) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 10 | FW | CZE | Václav Kadlec (to FC Midtjylland) |
| 31 | DF | GER | David Kinsombi (to Karlsruher SC, then on loan to 1. FC Magdeburg) |
| 32 | MF | GER | Joel Gerezgiher (on loan to FSV Frankfurt) |

### Werder Bremen

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | SEN | Papy Djilobodji (on loan from Chelsea) |
| 5 | MF | MLI | Sambou Yatabaré (from Olympiacos, previously on loan to Standard Liège) |
| 6 | MF | HUN | László Kleinheisler (from Videoton FC) |
| 13 | DF | SRB | Miloš Veljković (from Tottenham Hotspur) |
| 18 | GK | GER | Gerhard Tremmel (on loan from Swansea City) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | DF | COD | Assani Lukimya-Mulongoti (to Liaoning Whowin) |
| 10 | MF | GER | Levent Ayçiçek (on loan to TSV 1860 München) |
| 18 | MF | GER | Felix Kroos (on loan to 1. FC Union Berlin) |

### 1. FSV Mainz 05

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Giulio Donati (from Bayer Leverkusen) |
| 11 | FW | DEN | Emil Berggreen (from Eintracht Braunschweig) |
| 21 | FW | AUT | Karim Onisiwo (from SV Mattersburg) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | CHI | Gonzalo Jara (to Universidad de Chile) |
| 11 | FW | GER | Maximilian Beister (on loan to 1860 Munich) |
| 25 | MF | DEN | Niki Zimling (on loan to FSV Frankfurt) |
| 28 | MF | BUL | Todor Nedelev (on loan to Botev Plovdiv) |
| 31 | FW | GER | Florian Niederlechner (on loan to SC Freiburg) |

### 1. FC Köln

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 25 | DF | SRB | Filip Mladenović (from BATE Borisov) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | DF | BRA | Pedro Geromel (to Grêmio, previously on loan) |
| 25 | MF | JPN | Kazuki Nagasawa (to Urawa Red Diamonds, then on loan to JEF United Ichihara Chiba) |
| 26 | FW | NOR | Bård Finne (to 1. FC Heidenheim) |

### Hannover 96

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | MF | JPN | Hotaru Yamaguchi (from Cerezo Osaka) |
| 18 | MF | NOR | Iver Fossum (from Strømsgodset Toppfotball) |
| 21 | FW | GER | Marius Wolf (from 1860 Munich) |
| 22 | FW | POR | Hugo Almeida (from Anzhi Makhachkala) |
| 24 | DF | SWE | Alexander Milošević (on loan from Beşiktaş J.K.) |
| 28 | FW | HUN | Ádám Szalai (on loan from 1899 Hoffenheim) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | MF | GER | Maurice Hirsch (on loan to SpVgg Greuther Fürth) |
| 25 | DF | BRA | Marcelo (on loan to Beşiktaş J.K.) |
| 31 | MF | GER | Sebastian Ernst (to 1. FC Magdeburg) |
| 33 | DF | GER | Mike-Steven Bähre (on loan to Hallescher FC) |
| 37 | DF | GER | Niklas Teichgräber (on loan to VfV Hildesheim) |
| 39 | FW | TUR | Mevlüt Erdinç (on loan to EA Guingamp) |

### VfB Stuttgart

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 15 | MF | GER | Kevin Großkreutz (from Galatasaray) |
| 23 | FW | UKR | Artem Kravets (on loan from Dynamo Kyiv) |
| 24 | DF | ITA | Federico Barba (on loan from Empoli) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | MF | AUS | Robbie Kruse (loan return to Bayer 04 Leverkusen) |
| 11 | MF | ECU | Carlos Gruezo (to FC Dallas) |
| 17 | GK | GER | Odisseas Vlachodimos (to Panathinaikos) |
| 21 | MF | CZE | Adam Hloušek (to Legia Warsaw) |

### Hertha BSC

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | GER | Sinan Kurt (from Bayern Munich) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 10 | MF | TUN | Änis Ben-Hatira (to Eintracht Frankfurt) |
| 35 | GK | GER | Marius Gersbeck (on loan to Chemnitzer FC) |
| 39 | DF | GER | Yanni Regäsel (to Eintracht Frankfurt) |

### Hamburger SV

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | FW | SUI | Josip Drmić (on loan from Borussia Mönchengladbach) |
| 21 | MF | SWE | Nabil Bahoui (from Al-Ahli) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | MF | HUN | Zoltán Stieber (on loan to 1. FC Nürnberg) |
| 21 | MF | CHI | Marcelo Díaz (to Celta de Vigo) |
| 31 | DF | MOZ | Ronny Marcos (to SpVgg Greuther Fürth) |

### FC Ingolstadt 04

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 37 | FW | PAR | Dario Lezcano (from Luzern) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 11 | FW | CZE | Tomáš Pekhart (to AEK Athens) |
| 22 | MF | GER | Stefan Wannenwetsch (to Hansa Rostock) |
| 30 | MF | GER | Thomas Pledl (on loan to SV Sandhausen) |

### SV Darmstadt 98

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | FW | GER | Felix Platte (on loan from FC Schalke) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |

## 2. Bundesliga
### SC Freiburg

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 7 | FW | GER | Florian Niederlechner (on loan from Mainz 05) |
| 14 | FW | NOR | Håvard Nielsen (from Red Bull Salzburg) |
| 15 | MF | GER | Pascal Stenzel (on loan from Borussia Dortmund) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | FW | AUT | Philipp Zulechner (to Young Boys) |

### SC Paderborn 07

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | DF | GER | Tim Sebastian (from RB Leipzig) |
| 8 | FW | DEN | Nicklas Helenius (on loan from AaB) |
| 33 | FW | SVK | Jakub Sylvestr (on loan from 1. FC Nürnberg) |
| 34 | MF | GER | Robin Krauße (from Carl Zeiss Jena) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | FW | GER | Nick Proschwitz (to Sint-Truidense) |
| 21 | MF | GER | Daniel Brückner (released) |

### Karlsruher SC

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | GER | David Kinsombi (from Eintracht Frankfurt) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | DF | GER | Jan Mauersberger (to 1860 Munich) |
| 27 | FW | GER | Pascal Köpke (on loan to Erzgebirge Aue) |
| 34 | DF | GER | Tim Grupp (on loan to SpVgg Neckarelz) |
| — | DF | GER | David Kinsombi (on loan to 1. FC Magdeburg) |

### 1. FC Kaiserslautern

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 15 | FW | ISL | Jón Daði Böðvarsson (from Viking FK) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |

### RB Leipzig

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 8 | DF | GER | Tim Sebastian (to SC Paderborn) |
| 19 | MF | HUN | Zsolt Kalmár (on loan to FSV Frankfurt) |

### Eintracht Braunschweig

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 7 | FW | COD | Domi Kumbela (from SpVgg Greuther Fürth) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | FW | DEN | Emil Berggreen (to Mainz 05) |
| 23 | FW | DEN | Mads Dittmer Hvilsom (on loan to SK Brann) |

### 1. FC Union Berlin

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | AUT | Emanuel Pogatetz (from Columbus Crew) |
| 12 | GK | DEN | Jakob Busk (from F.C. Copenhagen, previously on loan to Sandefjord Fotball) |
| 23 | MF | GER | Felix Kroos (on loan from SV Werder Bremen) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | DF | UKR | Denis Prychynenko (released) |
| 33 | FW | KOS | Bajram Nebihi (released) |

### 1. FC Heidenheim

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 10 | FW | NOR | Bård Finne (from 1. FC Köln) |
| 11 | FW | GER | Denis Thomalla (on loan from Lech Poznań) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | MF | GER | Sebastian Heidinger (to SpVgg Greuther Fürth) |
| 11 | FW | GER | Daniel Frahn (to Chemnitzer FC) |
| 17 | FW | GER | Andreas Voglsammer (to Arminia Bielefeld) |
| 20 | FW | GER | Felix Schröter (loan return to FC Schalke 04) |
| 39 | FW | GER | Adriano Grimaldi (to Preußen Münster) |
| — | MF | GER | Dave Gnaase (on loan to SpVgg Neckarelz) |

### 1. FC Nürnberg

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | MF | HUN | Zoltán Stieber (on loan from Hamburger SV) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 10 | MF | GER | Timo Gebhart (to Steaua București) |
| 11 | FW | SVK | Jakub Sylvestr (on loan to SC Paderborn) |
| 20 | FW | GER | Stefan Kutschke (on loan to Dynamo Dresden) |
| 21 | MF | GER | Willi Evseev (on loan to Holstein Kiel) |
| 28 | MF | AUT | Alessandro Schöpf (to Schalke 04) |

### Fortuna Düsseldorf

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 35 | MF | GRE | Charalampos Mavrias (on loan from Sunderland) |
| — | MF | JPN | Justin Toshiki Kinjo (from 1860 Munich U19) |
| — | FW | SRB | Nikola Đurđić (on loan from FC Augsburg) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 9 | FW | NED | Mike van Duinen (on loan to Roda JC Kerkrade) |
| 35 | DF | GER | Fabian Holthaus (on loan to Dynamo Dresden) |

### VfL Bochum

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 39 | MF | NOR | Henrik Gulden (released) |

### SV Sandhausen

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | GER | Thomas Pledl (on loan from FC Ingolstadt) |
| — | MF | GER | Korbinian Vollmann (from 1860 Munich) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 2 | DF | GER | Nico Hammann (to 1. FC Magdeburg) |

### FSV Frankfurt

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 4 | DF | BRA | Gabriel Silva (free transfer) |
| 13 | MF | HUN | Zsolt Kalmár (on loan from RB Leipzig) |
| 14 | MF | DEN | Niki Zimling (on loan from Mainz 05) |
| 17 | MF | GER | Joel Gerezgiher (on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 14 | DF | GER | Alexander Bittroff (to Chemnitzer FC) |
| 17 | DF | LBN | Joan Oumari (to Sivasspor) |
| 22 | MF | GER | Timm Golley (on loan to SV Wehen Wiesbaden) |
| 31 | MF | GER | Leon Hammel (on loan to TuS Erndtebrück) |
| 32 | DF | GER | Florijon Belegu (to Berliner AK 07) |

### SpVgg Greuther Fürth

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 27 | DF | MOZ | Ronny Marcos (from Hamburger SV) |
| — | MF | GER | Maurice Hirsch (on loan from Hannover 96) |
| — | MF | GER | Sebastian Heidinger (from 1. FC Heidenheim) |
| — | FW | CRO | Ante Vukušić (from Pescara) |
| — | MF | SUI | Roberto Rodríguez (from Novara) |
| — | DF | GER | Nicolai Rapp (on loan from 1899 Hoffenheim) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 3 | DF | HUN | Zsolt Korcsmár (to Vasas SC) |
| 4 | DF | GER | Stefan Thesker (on loan to FC Twente) |
| 10 | DF | PHI | Stephan Schröck (on loan to Ceres) |
| 11 | MF | GER | Florian Trinks (to Ferencváros) |
| 16 | MF | SVN | Goran Šukalo (to 1860 Munich) |
| 18 | FW | COD | Domi Kumbela (to Eintracht Braunschweig) |
| 35 | MF | LUX | Dwayn Holter (to CS Fola Esch) |

### FC St. Pauli

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |

### 1860 Munich

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 13 | FW | GER | Sascha Mölders (on loan from FC Augsburg) |
| 23 | FW | GER | Maximilian Beister (on loan from Mainz 05) |
| 2 | DF | GER | Jan Mauersberger (from Karlsruher SC) |
| 33 | MF | GER | Levent Ayçiçek (on loan from SV Werder Bremen) |
| 15 | MF | SVN | Goran Šukalo (from SpVgg Greuther Fürth) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 27 | FW | GER | Marius Wolf (to Hannover 96) |
| 33 | MF | GER | Korbinian Vollmann (to SV Sandhausen) |
| 34 | FW | SRB | Fejsal Mulić (released) |
| 35 | MF | GER | Emanuel Taffertshofer (to Würzburger Kickers) |
| 36 | FW | GER | Stephane Mvibudulu (to Stuttgarter Kickers) |

### Arminia Bielefeld

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 10 | MF | KOR | Ryu Seung-woo (on loan from Bayer Leverkusen) |
| 21 | FW | GER | Andreas Voglsammer (from 1. FC Heidenheim) |
| 22 | MF | SUI | Francisco Rodríguez (on loan from VfL Wolfsburg) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | MF | SWE | Amin Affane (to AIK) |
| 29 | MF | GER | Samir Benamar (on loan to Rot-Weiß Erfurt) |
| 36 | MF | GER | Marco Hober (on loan to Borussia Dortmund II) |
| 37 | MF | GER | Christian Müller (to Vasas SC) |
| 38 | DF | GER | Jonas Strifler (to SV Waldhof Mannheim) |

### MSV Duisburg

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 7 | FW | POR | Tomané (on loan from Vitória Guimarães) |
| 38 | MF | TUR | Barış Özbek (from Kayserispor) |
| 39 | GK | SEN | Timothy Dieng (from Grasshopper Zürich) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 7 | DF | GEO | Lasha Dvali (released) |